SACRAMENTO — Late Thursday night, the California Assembly voted down two closely watched proposals — one to extend the state’s signature cap-and-trade program, while incorporating local air quality, and another to overhaul the bail-bonds system.

The bail reform proposal, Assembly Bill 42, by Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, failed 36-37. The Senate this week passed an identical proposal, Senate Bill 10, from Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys — but that bill is now bound for the same house that defeated its twin.

The bail industry, which likely would be devastated by the proposal in its current form, fought it fiercely, arguing that the change would put public safety at risk. But advocates argue the current system keeps poor people behind bars simply because they can’t afford to pay and that there are better ways to determine whether someone should await trial in jail.

The climate bill, AB 378, by Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens, was just three votes shy of passing Thursday — with four Democrats on the fence — for well over 30 minutes, as the chamber waited for undecided lawmakers to vote. Environmental advocates lobbied the undecided voters on Twitter to support it, to no avail.

Why isn’t @sridleythomas casting a vote on #AB378? His constituents suffer from the air pollution the bill would fix.

Instead, shortly before the roll was closed, five Democrats withdrew their support, putting the final tally at 33-39. The bill will be given reconsideration.

Just 33 of 55 Democrats in the California Assembly late Thursday voted<br />for AB 378, a cap-and-trade extension by Assemblywoman Cristina<br />Garcia, D-Bell Gardens, that would incorporate air quality. Five<br />withdrew their support at the very end. It failed 33-39.

By aiming to reduce local air pollution as well as climate-warming greenhouse gases, Garcia’s measure to extend — and significantly change — the cap-and-trade program won the support of environmental justice groups who say the current program to regulate carbon emissions does little to help pollution-choked areas.

But it has been fought by Big Oil and other industry groups who want an extension of cap and trade, but with better terms.

“This discussion is about making sure no one is left behind,” Garcia said, wiping away tears in her closing remarks before the vote, saying that for far too long, her district east of Los Angeles has been treated like a “wasteland.”

Katy Murphy is based in Sacramento and covers state government for The Mercury News and East Bay Times, a beat she took on in January 2017. Before that, she was the news organization's higher education reporter, writing about UC, CSU, community colleges and private colleges. Long ago, she covered Oakland schools and other K-12 education issues.

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